(24 quotes found)
“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills”
Joseph Roux
“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”
“In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears”
“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them”
“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”
“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
“When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.”
“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.”
“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence”
“Evil often triumphs, but never conquers”
